Hi,

What we are going to need to help you is a quick listing of the 1W programmes that you are a member of and whether you want miles or status points.

You are not maximising the South America coupons very well at this point. You could punt down to Santiago de Chile as well and return via Sao Paulo for example, just a single shot to Buenos Aires seems to be a waste when you have more coupons available. Depends on time etc.

You could do EZE back to the US as long as you are then going direct to Europe and that would help the long haul points collection and status points, rather than just the straight British Airways flight. The BA flight to B.A. stops somewhere so you could coupon split it if you insist on coming straight back to the UK and not via the US. Not a daily flight...

The LHR or LGW to CDG is a real waste of coupons as you can get the fare cheaply on the web. If you want the points then we can work something out, depending on what you want to do. Remember that ex LGW is probably cheaper than LHR on BA.

Never do LHR to MEL without getting off the aircraft and back on to the same one if you have the coupons to do it. You get more status points by splitting the flight up by about 10-15%, take the first one as BA and second as QF but you might want mileage bonus, depending on your programme. I am a bit worried by the LHR to MEL and then reversing up to Asia, the only way that you could do this would be LHR-MEL without stopping over and then come out of Oz back up to Asia. The best status way of doing this one would be LHR-BAH-HKG-MEL, depending upon your programme. Can someone check the Area 1,2,3 on this for me as I cannot remember the numbering system?

More help when you reply.

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